THE ARCHITECTURE OF
OTTOMAN JERUSALEM
An Introduction
Robert Hillenbrand

This book is intended to serve as an easily accessible introduction to the architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem, which forms the backdrop to the world-famous sacred buildings which are the goal of thousands of visitors every year. Most of the Ottoman public monuments were built for pious purposes, modest in scale but often richly ornamented. They include fountains, study cells, commemorative domed structures, open air mihrabs, minarets and Sufi convents, as well as grander enterprises like the encircling city walls and restorations to the Citadel and the Dome of the Rock. These buildings, like the pre-modern urban fabric into which they are so comfortably integrated, testify to the solid affection which Jerusalem has inspired in its Muslim citizens over the past five centuries.

Robert Hillenbrand is Professor of Islamic Art at the University of Edinburgh. He has written numerous articles and books on Islamic art and architecture for a wider public and has co-edited-with Dr Sylvia Auld-the multi-author 2-volume work Ottoman Jerusalem. The Living City 1517-1917 (London 2000), which offers a detailed survey of the Muslim city in Ottoman times.



260 x 200mm, 136 pages,
many drawings, black and white plates,
8 pages colour, paperback
ISBN 1 901435 09 1
£20.00
March 2002
Altajir World of Islam Trust

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